FAITH CAPSULE: Challenging needs are keeping you far from God or close to God?

Regardless of time or season, give attention to points below in dealing your challenging needs. God is in charge.
Worrying but not worshipping God:
Jesus specifically warned against worrying in Matthew 6:25-27, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” Are you with the burden of meeting challenging needs?
Are you worrying or worshipping God?
When worrying arises worshipping brings down one before God.
When worrying replaces worshipping God one will become far from God.
Worrying will prompt one to question God wrongly instead of worshiping God. Take note, know that questioning God in faith is not the same as question God in doubt. Do not worry, avoid complaining and not become a victim of worrying. God is a good God.
Sleeping in the place of need:
One that is asleep will miscalculate meeting of challenging needs.
Spiritually, to not sleep before God.
One that is asleep before God keeps self into a distance from God.
Psalm 13:3-4 mentioned the danger of sleeping, “Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.”
Are you sleeping spiritually or physically? Be awake before God and not to become a victim of lack.
Seek God regardless of challenging needs:
Are your challenging needs keeping you far from God or close to God?
In your time of challenges, keep close and not far from God by seeking God. Matthew 6:33-34 encourages, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Are you giving up from seeking God in your challenges? Seek God diligently as stated in Deuteronomy 4:29, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Seek God with all heart and soul is keeping the focus on God regardless of challenging needs which moves man far from God. Just like the Lost son, have you taken far from God but now discover the need to return to God like the prodigal son? Luke 15:17 stated, “When the prodigal son came to himself…”
The Lost son recognized his distance from father, he repented and returned to his father.
Why don’t you rise and begin to cry for the mercy of God to draw you to Himself and not be a victim of wandering into the far from God?

Prayer for today: Give thanks for what He has done, what He is doing and what He will do.